US Vice President Joe Biden met with the representative of the Armenian church during his visit to Cyprus.

Biden met for over an hour with the leaders of the island’s main faiths, Greek Orthodox, Turkish Cypriot Islam, Maronite, Armenian and Latin, the Cyprus Mail reported.  

He met with Archbishop Chrysostomos, Mufti Talip Atalay,  Maronite Archbishop Joseph Soueif, Armenian Archbishop Varoutzian Cherkelian, and the Latin representative in Cyprus Father Zacchaeus Toulninof.

Archbishop Chrysostomos said Biden had offered his support for a solution to the Cyprus issue. Besides, he said the religious leaders had expressed their views to Biden at the round-table discussion and that he had encouraged them to continue to work together.